Improvement in cotton-gins



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N. W. GAD DY.

Cotton-Eins."

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Witnesses.

f7/WA latenfedidmle 18,1873` .i 4TINITED STATES PATENT OEErcEo NICHOLASW. GADDY, OF NICHOLS, SOUTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-GINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,668, dated November18, 1873 5 application Iiied August 16, 1873. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NrcHoLAs W. GADDY, of Nichols, in the county ofMarion and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Cotton-Gins, of which the following is a specification:

My invention is an improvement in the class of gins having auxiliarybars or fingers applied to the ordinary bars or lingers Vbetween whichthe saws revolve; and the invention consists in the construction andarrangement of parts, as hereinafter described, whereby the saidauxiliaries are adapted to be readily attached and detached, and to beshifted or moved toward the saws from time to time, as they wear smoothat the corners, thus exposing T new and sha-rp edges.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of a cottongin with my improvement,and Fig. 2 is a plan View of some of the ordinary bars and some of theauxiliary bars which I attach.

Similar letters of reference indicate correvsponding parts.

with the saw for gearing purposes would be, and besides they cannot beadjusted to the saws to change them to new places as they wear;consequently I propose to apply short secondary or auxiliary fingers orbars F for doing the work, and attach them so that they can be shiftedalong from time to time as they as new and desire to secure by LettersPat-` ent- The combination of the auxiliary bars, iingers F, and theirfastening devices, with the ordinary bars C of the gin, as shown anddescribed, whereby said auxiliary ngersare (adapted to be adjusted anddetached, as set forth.

NICHOLAS WARE GADDY.

Witnesses R. L. LANE, R. R. HAYs.

